Cannot Quotes

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.